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...Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...scientists and military observers crawled up & down the blackened sides of seared ships in Bikini's lagoon and stumbled over armored steel decks which had been dimpled by the unearthly blast, they needed little imagination to translate this laboratory test-by multiplying it fivefold or tenfold-into a scene of real war. What they saw was plenty...
...inadequate transportation system for Lend-Lease shipments to Russia; the Russians prevented shipment of grain from food-rich Azerbaijan to Teheran and other deficient areas. In the capital there were food riots that lasted three days. Inflation soared. By last year the cost of living had risen tenfold, preparing the way for Communist agitation...
...renewed faith. Still-unliberated Norway has its heroic tales still to tell, when it is safe for free men to speak. But it is known that Norway's patriotic pastors, denied the use of their churches, living precariously on their parishioners' contributions, have increased their congregations tenfold. From Oslo last week came reports of fresh waves of sabotage by spiritually unvanquished patriots. And the 50-odd quisling pastors are preaching to empty benches...
...soon as the sun rises there will be the first shots; the enemy again will be after us and will attempt to find some weak spot in our positions. . . . The full influx of the enemy will rush at us, powerful as a flood, with forces tenfold as strong as ours. And we are but . . . weary infantrymen who have forgotten what sleep is like; and who for eternities have been lugging and pushing heavy loads along muddy roads and across soaked fields...